Music Reviews
Ego (2009): Beyonce
Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Ego”
Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce
Label: Columbia
Director: Frank Jr. Gatson and Beyonce Knowles
What is it with Beyonce and her two female back-up dancers? Are they having lesbian threesomes? Is Jay-Z even included in any of the action? After having the both of them in three to four videos …
Can We Talk by Code Red
The song, Can We Talk by Code Red is a fantastic song. This song is a cover version and it is extremely nice and upbeat. Code Red is a British boy band but I think they are non-existent already.
If I’m not mistaken, they only manage to …
Panopticon black-metal band - Roads to the North album
Panopticon is a one-man black-metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. The band is sole member Austin Lunn, who in my opinion is an amazing multi-instrumentalist. In the album Roads to the North, Panopticon not only brings in your typical instruments (guitars, drums and vocals) that you find in a rock/metal …
Whitesnake : Good To Be Raid
Whitesnake back groundbreaking rock music industry after more than 10 years, a break without releasing an album. Still carrying the same theme music, the eleventh album from Whitesnake, dominated the music sounding mid tempo, which has become characteristic of Whitesnake. Apparently not in the young age, David …
Radiohead - The Tourist (Song)
The Tourist is a song by Radiohead which is the final track on their album OK Computer. I will say right now that I believe OK Computer is Radiohead’s best work, along with Kid A, so the final track does bear some weight on the album as a whole. …
Sledding With Tigers - Sweater Weather (Song)
Sweater Weather is a song by Sledding With Tigers and the second song on their 2011 split release with Kids. Opening up with a tone that’s similar to the preceding track, Sweater Weather starts out with a sound that’s almost country in nature. The vocals enter the …
Dancing Queen (song) by Abba
Dancing Queen is one of Abba’s most famous songs, and in my view that is absolutely fair. The band produced a good number of extremely fine tracks in their career, but Dancing Queen must surely be counted as one of the very best of them all. Right from the …
Cream - Cat’s Squirrel (Song)
Cat’s Squirrel is a song by Cream which appears on their debut record, Fresh Cream. I should mention right now that this track is basically an instrumental (There is a very brief section with vocals, but they aren’t actual lyrics which is why I still consider this song to …
Vandoren M15 Mouthpiece
The Vandoren M15 mouthpiece is a mouthpiece released by Vandoren that is to follow the RV Lire. It has a slightly different shape and it uses different wood.
Likes: One thing that I like about this mouthpiece is the design of it’s shape. It fits easily into your mouth- something …
Fall Out Boy concert 9/16/07
On Saturday, 9/16/2007, I drove over to West Palm Beach, Florida to see Fall Out Boy in concert. I was chaperoning my daughter and her friends and though I like some of their songs, I’m certainly not a huge fan.
I was pleasantly surprised. The opening acts were …
Classic (song) by Adrian Gurvitz
I like love songs, my father said there is no such as love song but ballads. It is only called love song because the song is about love. Anyway, for me whatever it is called I still love songs about love. One of this is the song by Adrian …
Days (song) by The Kinks
Days is one of The Kinks’ most well known and well loved songs. Like most of the band’s most successful hits, it was written by Ray Davies, who later went on to have quite a prolific career as a solo artist. Days came out in 1968, and did fairly …
Rush - Moving Pictures Album
Moving Pictures is an album released by the rock band Rush in 1981. The Canadian trio had been building up steam with their previous two efforts Hemispheres and Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures continued that trend and went on to become an all time rock classic.
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The Knife - I Just Had To Die (Song)
I Just Had To Die is a song by The Knife which appears on their self-titled record. The song opens up with a rhythm which is sort of interesting at first, but draws slightly annoying after a few repetitions in my opinion. In my opinion, the vocals could’ve been …
13, 1999 Blur album
This album is really good, and I think that it deserves a lot more credit, when one looks at it retrospectively. By this I mean that most people associate Blur with their first records, and the songs that were on their first albums, whereas the later ones kind of …
The Flaming Lips - Slow Motion (Song)
Slow Motion is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album The Soft Bulletin. Contrary to the name, the track actually opens up with a fairly fast tempo, but it’s nothing too quick. Continuing on, Coyne comes in with the vocal melody for this track pretty …
Celtic Thunder, The Show (Music)
Celtic Thunder effectively captures the exceptional Irish flavor of a recent concert that the group by the same name held in 2008. The Celtic Thunder group consists of five Irishmen from different walks of life and who have developed their own vocal style that comes together in …
Nine Inch Nails - Where Is Everybody (Song)
Where Is Everybody is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The track opens up with a heavy synthesizer rhythm accompanied by drums and a bass line which goes over this part and plays an odd sounding lead rhythm. Reznor comes in with …
Smoky Mountain Rain
Smoky Mountain Rain is a song where Ronnie Milsap is singing about a man who is headed for Los Angelis to pursue his dream when he changes his mind and heads back to the smoky mountains to his girl friend. Like many though she has decided to move on …
Green Day-American Idiot CD
This is an ambitious work from a long-standing fan favorite. When Green Day emerged with silly punk tunes ten years ago, no one would have ever imagined they would rise to such heights. This is an epic work. While it does have songs that are easily …
Serj Tankian’s Elect the Dead Album
After System of a Down broke up, the lead singer Serj Tankian decided to do his own solo album and after a bit of a wait, we got Elect the Dead. In all honestly, while I would have preferred a regular System of a Down album over this, this …
Anberlin: Cities
I have been a fan of Anberlin since they formed many years ago, and I have been looking forward to their third album since they announced it would be released.
Cities is Anberlin’s third, and by far their most mature, album. For those that have followed them from their …
Muse - Take A Bow (Song)
Take A Bow is a track by Muse which is the opening track of Black Holes And Revelations. I just finished reviewing Starlight which is another track on this record and said that it’s an enjoyable song but not really one to be listening to if you wanted to …
“I Wish” (2000): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“I Wish”
TP-2.COM
Jive Records
“I Wish” is the first single and music video from his fourth solo album titled “TP-2.COM”. “I Wish” is a heavy string ballad about his deceased mother and other loved ones as well. This is another one of those celebrity-whining joints, complete with a children’s choir. …
Sublime - We’re Only Gonna Die For Our Arrogance (Song)
We’re Only Gonna Die For Our Arrogance is a song by Sublime which appears on their debut record, 40Oz To Freedom. The song opens up with the reggae rhythm characteristic of Sublime and is also accompanied by a guitar solo. Though the first verse of the track is relatively …
Metallica
Metallica, also known as The Black Album, is the fifth album by the band, released in 1991 on Elektra Records, it is the second album to feature Jason Newsted on Bass. The album is also the first to be produced by Bob Rock. This album is when Metallica took …
The Beatles - Let It Be
Overview - Let It Be, the final studio album of The Beatles, is made up more of melodic tracks rather than just traditional rock songs, although there are still some of those on here, mixed with some great songwriting and excellent vocal delivery. For me, there aren’t too many …
Please Don’t Go- Mike Posner
This is such a cool, creative song! I love it, it’s been one of my daily songs… one of those that dont leave your head, kind of your theme song of the day perhaps you would say? Well Mike Posner- I got to hand it to him, his voice …
The Beatles - The White Album (Side IV)
Overview - Side IV, the final side of The White Album, is much less energetic than side III but it’s a nice balance. Sides I and III were a bit more energetic in my opinion while sides II and IV were a bit more melodic for the most part. …
One Of The Boys by Katy Perry
Another great and talented singer would be Katy Perry and in One Of The Boys by Katy Perry; the title of her album, I can’t help but to compare her voice to Gwen Stefani of No Doubt. But she has her own identity voice and not quite Gwen. …
Hillbilly Deluxe by Brooks and Dunn
The song Hillbilly Deluxe by Brooks and Dunn reminds me of something sung by at true red neck from the backwoods. It has a certain swinging beat that will drive you to stomp your foot or tap you finger to the restless beat. This type of music has a …
I Got A Feeling by The Blackeyed Peas
The song I got a feeling is a great song in my opinion. This is for a few reasons. One is that it is a song that is very easy to listen to. Another is that the beat is something fun and easy to hum or sing. And finally, …
Magic and Mayhen; by the Coral
This album continues where the last one left off. The Coral continue their slightly tinny sounding, modern pastiche of sixties music, which works a treat. I loved it from the first song ‘In the Forest’, right through to the last, every songs a winner. Slightly darker …
Green Day - She’s A Rebel (Song)
She’s A Rebel is a track returns to the feel that previous songs on American Idiot had like the title track and Holiday. To put it very simply and briefly, the songwriting is simple, the lyrics aren’t amazing, the vocal melody is catchy, and somehow everything just comes together …
Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children
Smells Like Children is a 1995 remix ep of Portrait of an American family, Marilyn Manson wasn’t happy with the results of Portrait of an American Family, this ep is the end result. This album not only has remixes of the previous album, it has several covers including the …
Kanye West- Graduation
Graduation overall sounds very laid back. It’s a bit more relaxed, than what you might be used to but it’s defiantly an album that you are going to want to buy if you love Kanye.
This is a solid and enjoyable collection. There are no skits or fillers that make …
Cyclone by baby bash
Cyclone by baby bash ft. t pain is a song that is danceable and party all night long material. The beat is so in tune no flaws can be found and they even have a dance the girls can do for their guy after they watch the music video. …
Coldplay: Viva La Vida
After the Storming sucess of there previous 3 albums, Coldplay After a World Tour, Promoting there 3rd Album, X & Y. began Work on there fourth Album.
Being a Huge Fan of the previous 3 studio albums, Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head, and X & Y. I …
MGMT - Weekend Wars (Song)
Weekend Wars is the second track off of MGMT’s second release, Oracular Spectacular. When I first started listening to MGMT, Weekend Wars was one of the first tracks to really jump out at me. I will say that compared to Time To Pretend, Weekend Wars changes much more, and …
Deja Vu (2006): Beyonce ft. Jay-Z
Artist: Beyonce ft. Jay-Z
Video: “Deja Vu”
Album: B’Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Sophie Muller
Okay, we get it, Beyonce, you and your husband are on top of the world, he makes you very horny, and you would do anything for him. Oh boy, I got flashes of her…horrid… Sasha Fierce image in this very …
Firework - Katy Perry (From The Album, Teenage Dream)
When I first heard of Katy Perry’s Firework, I thought it is just another teenage song and so I didn’t pay much attention to it. But yesterday, my brother showed me a video he made using that song, and I was moved by the lyrics. Contrary to what I …
Reba McEntire LOVE SOMEBODY Album
Reba McEntire returns with “Love Somebody,” her first collection in five years. McEntire co-created the collection with a few accomplices, including Tony Brown, James Stroud, and Doug Sisemore. She intelligently encompassed herself with some of Nashville’s most sizzling musicians —” and, all the more imperatively, a portion of the …
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs (Song)
Venus In Furs is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their debut record, The Velvet Underground And Nico. The track starts off with a very Eastern sound to it, I’ve read that this track features Reed playing his guitar where each of his strings are tuned …
Album : Heonia - winsome Scar (2011)
What is it with female vocalists thinking that they have to sing every word in the highest possible register? This fact has annoyed me for a long time now and really causes me a lot of frustration when i find symphonic and melodic metal bands that would otherwise be …
Fancy by Reba McEntire
There are only a select few songs that I like by Reba McEntire, and that’s simply because she sings very old-fashioned country songs. There is nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t really my style. She has an amazing voice and that really awesome country twang, which is one …
Down Nola CD
Down is a joint collaboration of Phil Anselmo, Pepper Keenan, Kirk Windstein, Rex Brown, and Jimmy Bower.The musicians took a break from their musical commitments back in 1995 to record a pivotal record that would shape the musical landscape for years to come.The elements of the album were forged …
Metallica - I Disappear (Music Video)
Overview —“ I Disappear, a track written for the purposes of the Mission Impossible II soundtrack is a song that ended up causing a lot of controversy for Metallica and costing them a lot of fans, and not even for the song itself. For those of you who do …
Let Love Win by Daniel Kirkley- CD
The first song I heard by Daniel Kirkley was My New Dawn. I heard this awesome song on the radio. This was definitely a cut above the other songs they play on the radio. It was a gorgeous, powerful song. When I heard that song, …
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